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Radar/EW
ISR sensors, GaN materials, multicore processors dominant tech trends in 2015 - Story
December 22, 2015
Every month the McHale Report will host an online roundtable with experts from the defense electronics industry ? from major prime contractors to defense component suppliers. Each roundtable will explore topics important to the military embedded electronics market. This month we discuss the technology game changers and market highlights from 2015 in the military electronics market as well as make predictions for 2016.
Radar/EW
Solid-state pulse Doppler radar tracks small targets in high clutter environments - Story
December 22, 2015
Militaries worldwide are increasing funding for radar systems that can track small targets such as rubber boats in high clutter, littoral environments as well as in the high seas. In this Q&A with Spike Hughes, Sales and Marketing Director for Kelvin Hughes, he discusses how solid-state, pulse Doppler radar technology enables those capabilities and also is being developed to counter the threat of small unmanned aircraft. Edited excerpts follow.
Comms
DoD C4ISR market revenue to benefit from COTS and IoT systems - News
December 22, 2015
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. Analysts at Frost & Sullivan say they expect U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C4ISR) spending to be flat through 2020 due to force structure reductions. However, activity and revenues should increase for the application of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS)-based computing, security, storage, networking, and collaboration tools. Internet of Things (IoT) systems along with cloud and big data technologies will be necessary to complement the adoption of COTS-based smart phones, tablets, wireless networks and productivity applications of all kinds.
A.I.
IARPA conference for Hybrid Forecasting Competition announced - News
December 22, 2015
WASHINGTON. Officials at the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) announced the organization will be hosting a Proposers’ Day Conference for the Hybrid Forecasting Competition (HFC) program on February 3, 2016, as part of the build up to the release of a new solicitation supporting the program.
Radar/EW
Top military embedded blogs of 2015 - Blog
December 22, 2015
The most popular blogs on Mil-Embedded.com in 2015 covered topics including the sale of GE Embedded to Veritas Capital, legal snags for long-range radar, cyber attacks, manipulating space and time, the Internet of Things, and more. Check out the top ten below.
Unmanned
Top ten military electronics stories of 2015 - News
December 21, 2015
Our most popular stories on Mil-Embedded.com throughout 2015 covered topics such as high energy lasers, canister-launched unmanned aircraft, electronic warfare pods, F-15 upgrades, and more. Check them out below.
From The Editor
Amos Deacon Jr., of Phoenix International Systems, passes away - Story
December 18, 2015
My first meeting with Amos Deacon Jr., founder of Phoenix International Systems, was in the mid-1990s at the old AFCEA Technet show in Washington. With his big booming voice, firm handshake, and arm around my shoulder he made an impression and made me a friend instantly during my first year in the military electronics industry. A more loyal friend in this business you could not find. Unfortunately we lost Amos and his big heart last month when he passed away from cancer at age 82.
Avionics
EASA and European Commission to keynote Aviation Electronics Europe 2016 - News
December 17, 2015
MUNICH, Germany. Gzim Ocakoglu, Policy Advisor, European Commission / DG MOVE and Friedhelm Runge, Avionics Expert, European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) have been announced as keynote speakers at the Aviation Electronics Europe conference and exhibition to be held April 20-21 in Munich, Germany at the MOC Event Center.
Avionics
New aircraft production down, avionics upgrade funding steady - Story
December 15, 2015
Budget cuts and sequestration have reduced funding for new aircraft platforms but there are still pockets of funding for avionics and flight decks in existing military aircraft. In this Q&A with Troy Brunk, Vice President and General Manager of Airborne Solutions for Rockwell Collins Government Systems, he discusses his outlook for military avionics technology, what pilots want avionics technology to do for them, and the situational-awareness benefits of synthetic vision technology. Edited excerpts follow.
Comms
C-130 radios to get upgrades from Raytheon - News
December 14, 2015
MCKINNEY, Texas. Raytheon won a $29.6 million Air Force upgrade contract to install MXF-626K VHF Communications Systems on 178 C-130H Hercules aircraft. This upgrade makes sure C-130 radios comply with newly adopted European Air Traffic Management requirements by enabling 8.33 kilohertz (kHz) channel spacing in the range of 118 to 137 megahertz (MHz).
Radar/EW
Top ten radar/electronic warfare stories from 2015 - News
December 10, 2015
Radar and electronic warfare (EW) stories have been quite popular on Mil-Embedded.com throughout 2015, which is not surprising as military planners worldwide are boosting their C4ISR budgets to counter sophisticated threats. Our top read stories covered long-range radars, EMP weapons, small radars for coastal zones, Space Fence, and more. Check them out below.
Comms
Marine Corps ACV 1.1 EMD contracts won by SAIC and BAE Systems - News
November 30, 2015
QUANTICO, Virginia. U.S. Marine Corps officials selected SAIC in McLean, Virginia, and Land & Armaments LP in Sterling Heights, Michigan, for the Manufacturing, and Development (EMD) phase contracts of the Amphibious Combat Vehicle (ACV) 1.1 program. Each contract calls for solution is to be built from the ground up to be an amphibious vehicle.
Radar/EW
FPGAs, expensive and difficult to program, but essential to radar & electronic warfare systems - Story
November 23, 2015
Every month the McHale Report will host an online roundtable with experts from the defense electronics industry ? from major prime contractors to defense component suppliers. Each roundtable will explore topics important to the military embedded electronics market. This month we discuss the impact of FPGAs on military electronics designs -- how they are game changers in radar and electronic warfare signal-processing systems, but still difficult to program and expensive.
Comms
Military tactical radios trends - from NDI procurement to power management - Story
November 23, 2015
In this Q&A with Dennis Moran, vice president of U.S. DoD Business Development at Harris Corp., he discusses military tactical radio technology, the Harris acquisition of Exelis, and Department of Defense (DoD) radio procurement trends after the Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) program. He also addresses the use of open architecture designs in tactical communication systems and power management for radios.
From The Editor
Astronauts wanted: NASA looks for more space explorers - Blog
November 23, 2015
Do you like to travel? Enjoy a spectacular view? Enjoy traveling at high speeds? Moving in zero gravity? Word is NASA hiring astronauts so you may want to ditch the cube walls and get ready for a career in orbit.
Radar/EW
GE embedded will be called Abaco Systems - Blog
November 18, 2015
As many of you know GE announced it was selling its embedded business to Veritas capital, a venture capital firm in New York City earlier this fall and the organization of about 700 employees would form a new company in January, 2016. Company officials say the deal is expected to close soon, but in the meantime they have announced their new name.... Abaco Systems.
Comms
USRP B200mini device with continuous RF coverage - Product
November 17, 2015
The Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP) B200mini series from Ettus Research, A National Instruments company – essentially enables software-defined radio (SDR)/cognitive radio capability in a business-card size. The device is targeted at functions such as wireless signal discov...
Comms
NDR308 converts VHF/UHF spectrum to digital IF - Product
November 17, 2015
CyberRadio Solutions offers the NDR308, a standalone 8-channel wideband digital tuner that converts the VHF/UHF spectrum to digital intermediate frequency (IF) data over 10 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces. It includes eight independent tuners that cover the 20 to 3,000 MHz frequency range with...
Radar/EW
Rugged military display features three LCD panels - Product
November 17, 2015
With a series of panels, the TFX1-19 from Chassis Plans is a rugged military-grade 2U rackmount LCD panel display. It features three 19-inch TFT LCD displays with per-panel resolution of 1,280 by 1,024. Chassis Plans officials offer display options that include a bonded anti-reflective gla...
Comms
High-speed Ethernet encryption to be demonstrated by Naval Research Lab and ViaSat - News
November 17, 2015
AUSTIN, Texas. ViaSat engineers in Carlsbad, California, developed a single-port 100 Gbps encryption device built to scale from 10 to 40 to 100 Gbps, enabling users to migrate their security infrastructure, as the demand for more bandwidth increases. ViaSat representatives and experts from the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) will be demonstrating the product family this week in Austin, Texas at SC15 (Supercomputer Conference).
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